Open AccessPrimary Systemic Amyloidosis Mimicking Chronic Constrictive Pericardial Disease
Author(s) -
William T. Couter,
RUDOLPH E. REICHET
Publication year - 1950
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.2.3.441
Subject(s) - medicine , constrictive pericarditis , cardiac amyloidosis , amyloidosis , pericarditis , systemic disease , disease , cardiology , primary systemic amyloidosis , pathology
The characteristically altered physiologic pattern in chronic constrictive pericarditis is the resultant of the diminished cardiac expansibility. A widespread infiltrative myocardial disease in which cardiac expansibility was equally limited should simulate the former entity very closely. This extremely rare entity is illustrated in this case report.
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